[Zope3-dev] The Date Time and TimeZone question

[Guido van Rossum]

> For what it's worth, Ty and I are committed to producing a module that lets 
> you read tzinfo objects a "tzcode"-format "zoneinfo database", and keeping 
> a current "zoneinfo database" compiled from the "tzcode" package (which is 
> updated pretty regularly by some people who care about timezone details a 
> *lot* more than Ty and I!).
> 
> Anyway, if we're going to have to do that for ourselves, I'm sure that 
> other people will find both the code and the database useful.  Note that 
> the database format is platform independent, and our code will be 100% 
> Python, so I'm not sure whether this counts as "coupling to a 3rd party 
> library".  :)
> 
> I imagine, however, that the database itself is probably inappropriate for 
> inclusion in the Python standard distribution; it's 120K in .tar.gz format, 
> and 750k in .tar format, so it takes a fair amount of disk space for such a 
> specialty item.  Zope, on, the other hand, as a "batteries included"-type 
> distribution, might want to include it for standardization's sake, perhaps 
> as a "zoneinfo service".

+1

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)